On 8/26/06, niht-hræfn nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 25, 2006, at 9:53, Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
I've always liked "Wikipedia - the people's encyclopedia" _______________________________________________
Wikipedia is to information what democracy once was to government: of the people, for the people, by the people.
Exactly! I realise that people might associate it with a certain Peoples republic (ironic, since said People's Republic are blocking us), But I really do think it describes us fairly well.
And by the way, when did "people" become one of those loaded, Newspeak words, that cannot be used without making a reference to something else. You know like communist, socialist, terrorist, freedom, liberal, etc. Maybe a better slogan would be "Wikipedia - The encyclopedia for the masses" or "Wikipedia - The encyclopedia for the rest of us". If we're going down that path maybe we should just fess up and call it "I can't believe it's not Britannica!" and post a picture of an "<- I'm with stupid!" T-shirt on our frontpage.
Yeah, I guess, "Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia" is a pretty good slogan. How about we just remove the "that anyone can edit" part? That seems like a good solution to me...
--Oskar